I read about what they believe and they are not christians. but a cult. which is sad. praying for them
2007-07-01 10:18:00 · 29 answers · asked by fantasypurplerain 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Duh!! "Everyone" knows *that* if they know *anything* about the cult!
I, too, pray that they, and JWs, and Muslims, will allow God, through Jesus, show them the Truth!
2007-07-01 10:31:36 · answer #1 · answered by trebor namyl hcaeb 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
I have heard this saying as well and heard the same for the 7 day adventist church. People name and judge one by their religion but who to say these people know not God. The true religion is Jesus Chrsit and all who serve him as the true being. Now if it be that we all serve the same God being there are different administration, What is the fighting and different beliefs about. In God's eyes we all are considered sisters and brothers. Think about it, mankind label some as being occult but all the existing religion could be as well if they serve not the true Lord and savior Jesus Christ and pray unto God-I AM THAT IAM, in our savior name Jesus. Now to say that Mormon is a cult, I will let God be their judge. One think this way about mormon ans how they know that the mormon do not think the same about other religion. All I can say is that the world should be careful about their judging and I am a Jesus Child.
2007-07-01 17:35:00 · answer #2 · answered by JoJoBa 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
From what you say, this is how you define "cult":
CULT: n., church down the road that I don't believe and don't like, that I want others to fear and hate as much as I do.
And here is how you define the word "Christian":
CHRISTIAN: n., person who believes ONLY what I believe or what I will accept as right about Jesus Christ.
So, saying "Mormons is a cult" tells me more about you than about Mormons.
2007-07-02 10:26:58 · answer #3 · answered by mormon_4_jesus 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Did you know Jesus was a cultist?
...At least, to people like you, who fear any new words from God, he was.
Look how his apostle was described by the orthodoxy:
"For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes."
They might just as well have said...
"We read about what Christians believe and they are not Jewish. But a cult. Which is sad. Praying for them..."
2007-07-01 17:26:54 · answer #4 · answered by Bravo-Alpha 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
So were the early Christians a cult by Roman standards.
2007-07-01 17:20:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 1⤋
every religion can be classified as a cult. and within a religion, sub-groups are classified as cults. christianity places a negative connotation on cults.
it's a shame that you feel so superior to others that you feel the need to pray for them.
jesus' teaching on prayer never included praying for anyone else. only for yourself......read 'pater noster' (the lord's prayer) again.
2007-07-01 17:25:43 · answer #6 · answered by Rainman 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Well in your opinion and some of the opinion of so called "christlike" evangelical antimormons.
But I don't think so. We are a religion and very christian.
As for cookydusters claim that No man knows my history by Fawn Brodie is a good book that's a laugh.
Mrs. Brodie was so anti-Mormon in her own intellectual orientation that she succumbed to the temptation to bring nineteenth century literature of Mormon countersubversion uncritically and in large doses into her own work. The seeming contradictory theses of No Man Knows My History are that Joseph Smith was a charlatan (and Mormonism a conscious, premediitated hoax) and that the main force perpetuation the mormon religion through the generations is the persistent magnetism of Smith's personality. Mrs. Bordie's zeal to create the grand and ultimate expose' of Mormonism knew no bounds, and she utilized all the techniques previously devised to advance that purpose, including those of Linn, Werner, Reley, et al.,.her neo-navtivist predecessors on whom her work relies heavily, if tacitly. For example, No Man Knows My History displays Linn's tendency to dismiss the complex or arresting in Mormon history as ludicrous or absurd. There is in both Brodie and Linn incredulity that anything connected with Mormonism (excepting it abominations) could ever be taken seriously.
http://www.lds.org
http://www.mormon.org
http://www.fairlds.org
http://farms.byu.edu
2007-07-01 17:26:27 · answer #7 · answered by Brother G 6 · 4⤊ 2⤋
A cult is any group that puts another book or tradition on an equal par or superior to that of the Bible. With that said, Mormonism, Jehovah Witnesses and the Catholic Church are all cults.
2007-07-01 17:27:03 · answer #8 · answered by theo48 1 · 3⤊ 4⤋
Actually in the classic meaning they aren't a cult... just not Christian.
2007-07-01 17:34:32 · answer #9 · answered by lordkelvin 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Are you some kind of idiot? Of course they're not Christians, and I don't believe they ever claimed to be so. Hey honey, all organized religions are cults! Do some extensive research on the topic, before posting such an embarassing remark!
2007-07-01 17:23:13 · answer #10 · answered by Mr. WGAF 3 · 2⤊ 3⤋
They are not a cult. They don't ask you to give up friends that aren't in the religion, and they don't ask you to get rid of your possesions, or donate them to the religion.
Just because you don't agree with their beliefs doesn't make them a cult.
Let them be.
2007-07-01 17:23:05 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋